A study of the voice system in Burushaski
Subtitle: from the perspective of a native speaker of the Hunza dialect
By: Piar Karim
Series: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics -- 89; LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics -- 89.
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Muenchen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9783862889419
Subjects: Burushaski language; Voice; 18.90 other Asiatic languages
Description: This study is about voice system in Burushaski, focusing especially on the middle voice (MV) construction. It claims that the [dd-] verbal prefix is an overt morphological middle marker for MV constructions, while the [n-] verbal prefix is a morphological marker for passive voice. The data primarily come from the Hunza dialect of Burushaski, but analogous phenomena can be observed in other dialects. This research is based on a corpus of 120 odd-prefix verbs. This research has shown that position {-2} on the verb template is occupied by voice-marker in Burushaski. The author argues that the middle marker is a semantic category of its own and that it is clearly distinguished from the reflexive marker in this language. The analysis of the phenomenon in this study only comes from the dialect of Hunza Burushaski, so a lot of research remains to be done on the other three dialects of Burushaski: Yasin dialect, Nagar dialect and Srinagar dialect.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101).

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